Bed-cord



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

STEPHEN ALBRO, OF BUFFALO, NEIV YORK.

BED-CORD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,950, dated July 3, 1860.

To all 'whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN ALBRO, of the city of Buffalo, in the countyof Erie, in the State of New York, have invented a New Form ofBed-Cords, New Apparatus Vherewith to Attach Them to Bedsteads, and aNew Mode of Drawing Them Tight; and I do hereby declare that t-hefollowing is a true and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings and letters and figures marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the use of common bed-cord rope,fashioned into detached loops or reaches, with metallic attachments attheir bights or ends, by which they are attached to the head and footrails of bedsteads or bottom frames thereof. (See a, Figure l, and a.,b, Fig. 2.)

Fig. 1, represents a bedstead which, for the use of my invention,requires such a bottom frame as is represented by Fig. 2.

Attached to the head and foot rails are metallic catches, (see Figs. 3,and 5,) which so dier in construction that, while the swivel, (a) inFig. 3, revolves and twists the cord, that in Fig. 5, remainsstationary, preventing the end of the cord or the hightof the loop towhich it is attached, from turning.

Fig. 4, present-s an inside View of the catch in which the swivelrevolves. Letter a, in that ligure, represents the square head of theswivel; and letter c, in the same iigure, represents a key, which,though detached from the catch, becomes a fixture when th'e catch isfastened to the rail. The use of this key is to prevent the swivel fromturning backward when the cord has been drawn tight by twisting. As theswivel ree volves in the catch, the four angles of its square head throwthe key up, and as the angles leave it, it drops at every side of thehead, preventing retroaction, when the process of twisting ceases. InFigs. 3, and 5, letters a, a, represent the form of the swivel abovealluded to.

Fig. 6, presents a front view of the smaller catch, which holds one endof the cord stationary, while the other end is twisted by the revolvingswivel.

Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The formation of common rope cords into detached loops or reaches, to beused as bedcords; in combination with the metallic swivels a, andcatches d, and e, by which they are attached to bedsteads, substantiallyas described.

STEPHEN ALBRO.

Vitnesses VILLIAM VIBIRT, A. A. LovRIDGE.

